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Reuters: Japan urges China not to escalate East China Sea tension. If the China Sea conflict goes hot, the Japan/China dispute over the Senkaku Islands has the greatest chance of being the flashpoint. The reasoning is very simple. China is actively challenging Japan’s claims. At present, Japan has naval superiority over China. Japan is close … Continue reading Japan, China, Senkaku Islands, & the Nine Dotted Line→

This is based upon a line of reasoning dating to 1994, when Bill Clinton granted China Most Favored Nation trade status. I am an admirer of Bill Clinton. Perhaps, in the years the followed, and in the subsequent administration, trade policy should have received periodic, significant modifications. Let’s do a back-of-the-envelope calculation of China’s claims … Continue reading The Nine-Dotted Line→

Trump’s tweets about China suggest to some that the U.S. military posture with respect to the Nine Dotted Line is about to become more aggressive. Most noted is Trump’s phone conversation with the president of Taiwan, in violation of the “one China policy” of both the mainland and Taiwan, which, according Congressional Research Service (pdf), … Continue reading Trump’s Tweets on China→

Reuters reports the protest of Vietnam with the first military flight to an island in the Spratleys. The inaugural post of this blog, The Nine Dotted Line, suggested 2025 as a due date for exercise of full sovereignty by China in the delineated area. You may wish to look at the Pivot to Asia series: … Continue reading South China Sea Tense→

One day in 1894 or ’95, a seaman in the British merchant-marine put pen to paper, and wrote “a story of an eastern river.” Although he spoke English with a thick Polish accent, Joseph Conrad came to be regarded as the greatest novelist in the English language. Almayer’s Folly was his first work, based largely … Continue reading Pivot To Asia, Historical Background; Part 1→

(CNN) CIA official: China wants to replace US as world superpower. Quoting CIA’s Michael Collins, “By their own terms and what Xi enunciates I would argue by definition what they’re waging against us is fundamentally a cold war, a cold war not like we saw during the Cold War, but a cold war by definition. … Continue reading Aspen Security Conference; The Rise of China, Part 1→

This blog contains so many Asia articles, it would be superfluous to write on the occasion of Trump’s Asia trip. Nothing new has transpired. It’s a lot of reading. Even in capsule form, there may be enough words to hide the obvious conclusion, of which there are many examples. Imagine for a moment the U.S. … Continue reading Selected China Readings; Trump’s Asia Tour→